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We^ANj
April 1, 1977 Page 1
APRIL FOOL'S
CBC accepts federal funding
"Political pressures for tax aid
for church related and secular
private colleges have been so great
that the federal government and 35
state governments provide some
sort of tax aid for them. The controversies over tax aid for nonpublic colleges have been heated. . . ." That and following quotes
are from Church and State, a 1975
issue. A lot has happened in the
way of separation of church and
state (the purpose behind the magazine) since that time.
Edward D. Eddy suggests three
tests of vitality in the private college — while two do not apply to
federal funding, one does. "To be
vital today, a college or university
must take an honest look at its
own values—and then place its dollars where its values lie. . . .!
CBC has taken such an honest look
and has decided, after much deliberation, to accept all possible
federal funding.
Southern Baptists are notorious
for splits and differing standards
in our churches -- CBC's acceptance of federal funding comes as
no shock in such a denomination.
It began with BEOG and other fed
eral assistance programs (which,
in theory, benefit individual students and not the college/university—an equalizer so to speak)
and will continue to have far-
reaching results.
To see how CBC will change
with the advent of federal funding,
let us consider the changes required of Western Maryland College (a Methodist college). All
religious symbols (except for educational purposes) affiliated
with the college were abolished.
The school can neither "describe
nor hold itself as church related."
It should be "neutral as to spiritual development (in a religious
sense)" of its students, faculty,
and staff.
Religious services of any kind
can be neither sponsored or conducted on campus. Baccalaureate
services are to be entirely secular—no prayers, religious hymns,
or sermons. The federal funds are
not to be used to financially support "any religious group or organization." Philosophy and Religion courses are to be taught as
academic subjects, with 50% of the
faculty teaching in each area com
ing from non-Methodist (in our
case, non-Baptist) backgrounds
and/or religious persuasions.
The Board of Trustees are to
come from "diverse religious
backgrounds," having "not more
than 10% Methodist (Baptist) ministers." A complete disaffiliation
from the Methodist (Baptist)
Church had to be made, with promise not to renew or establish
ties at any point in the future.
"Here, then, we have spelled out
quite explicitly the price that
church colleges will probably ultimately have to pay to constitutionally receive public funding. How
many church colleges will be willing to pay the price. . . .?"One in
Riverside, California is!
When a Baptist college in Charleston, South Carolina accepted
federal funding, it didn't meet all
of these requirements. Investigators from Health, Education, and
Welfare came on campus and insisted on changes in the college's
programs with regard to religion
before pronouncing the college in
compliance with federal laws governing aid to private colleges. A
spokesperson for the college
"In the beginning. ,."
"In the beginning. ..,anevening
of drama with Dave Auda, Ken
Hornbeck, Alma Rhoades, and Nancy Smith to be presented April ,
has begun to take definite form.
The first half of the evening will
consist of scenes from "You're
A Good Man, Charlie Brown," directed by Ken Hornbeck.
The second half includes Ken
and Alma's award-winning drama
duo presentation, "Marty," and
Daniel Amos, Musfard Seed Faith,
Children of the Day
APRIL8,9,10 • 7:00 PM
SWING AUDITORIUM
689 SOUTH E STREET SAN BERNARDINO FOR MORE INFO CALL 785 4254
Find out for yourself
"Jesus livesT
Mark Twain's skit 'The Diary"of
Adam and Eve," performed by
Dave and Nancy. A Reader's Theatre selection from The Me Nobody
Knows, a "shepherd monologue"
done by Ken, an Erma Bombeck
monologue called "Why Don't You
Grow Up?" presented by Alma, and
a song written and performed by
Dave concludes the program.
Transitions of poetry, slides, and
music add a sense of continuity
to the evening's selections.
More details about this "excit-'
ing" presentation will be in the
Banner after the Easter recess.
Golden
Gate's
ehoir
eomes
Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary's Concert Choir will
travel on a "Mini-Tour" April
19-21, tollpland, Riverside,Fresno and San Jose.
The 32-voice choir will perform
works of Hassler, Bach, Brahms,
Thompson and Pfautsch.
Dr. Ron Bostic of the Seminary's
music faculty will be conductor for
the Concert Choir, and Polly Bostic will be the accompanist.
The choir will perform at 7:30
p.m. April 19 at First Baptist
Church, Upland; 10 a.m. April 20
at California Baptist Col lege, Riverside; 7:30 p.m. April 20 .at'
Harvard Terrace Baptist Church,
Fresno; and 7:30 p.m. April 21 at
Foxworthy Baptist Church, San
Jose.
Prior to leaving on the Mini-
Tour, the Concert Choir will sing
for the Redwood Empire Association at 7:30 p.m., April 14.
called "government control and
regulation ... a high price to pay
for a few federal dollars for a
church college." Perhaps South
Carolinians feel this, but not Californians!
In August of 1976, outgoing US
Commissioner of Education T.H.
Bell "urged greater federal support for church-related and other
private colleges." He also said
that the "federal government
should encourage state governments to aid denominational and
private colleges." "Amen," our
faculty senate applauded, then
realized words such as amen will
have to be deleted in the future.
The New York Times ran an
editorial stating that "erosion of
church-state separation, however
benign it may seem in the light of
serious fiscal pressures, remains
a danger to religious liberty." Sam
Ervin wrote "even a Supreme
Court Justice ought to have sufficient mental capacity to understand that compelling taxpayers to
support non-sectarian activities at
church related schools amounts to
forced support of religion." Cal
Baptist disagrees.
The University of Redlands (and
Addie Johnston College)oncewere
an American Baptist funded school.
Several years ago, they accepted
federal funding, which, in the
words of their financial aid director, "keeps our college open."
Redlands "retains ties" on a
"loose basis" with the American Baptist denomination. "Iknow
of no college" that can continueto
function without federal aid,he
said.
Although it is much too early to
estimate the amount of money Cal
Baptist will receive, estimates
project as high as a million dollars (not including individual
grants). This will enable us to
make "monumental changes inour
campus structure." Every department will reap the benefits of such
acceptance; every student will reap
the benefits of such acceptance.
(See editorial page 2 for opinion
regarding this seemingly sudden
change at California Baptist College).
"OUR WORRIES ARE over.
money!" says Flo.
Young Demos
contribute
"Although it's not a peak time
(after the election), the Young
Democrats are still meeting and
still working and stillabletomake
valuable contributions to the CBC
campus."
The Young Democrats have contributed $25 to the Forensics team
to help cover meal costs" at National competition in Virginia.
This sum will pay for over half of
one speech team member's meals
while representing CBC across the
United States. The Young Democrats contribution "will remove
pressure as we continue to raise
money," said a forensics team
member.
"It's an exciting thing to see
one club on campus eager to
take part in the goals and efforts
of another club."
Bib . m i v a,
JIM ROBERTSON, Young Democrats president, presents check to
Mrs. Norene Hokett, forensics speech coach.

We^ANj
April 1, 1977 Page 1
APRIL FOOL'S
CBC accepts federal funding
"Political pressures for tax aid
for church related and secular
private colleges have been so great
that the federal government and 35
state governments provide some
sort of tax aid for them. The controversies over tax aid for nonpublic colleges have been heated. . . ." That and following quotes
are from Church and State, a 1975
issue. A lot has happened in the
way of separation of church and
state (the purpose behind the magazine) since that time.
Edward D. Eddy suggests three
tests of vitality in the private college — while two do not apply to
federal funding, one does. "To be
vital today, a college or university
must take an honest look at its
own values—and then place its dollars where its values lie. . . .!
CBC has taken such an honest look
and has decided, after much deliberation, to accept all possible
federal funding.
Southern Baptists are notorious
for splits and differing standards
in our churches -- CBC's acceptance of federal funding comes as
no shock in such a denomination.
It began with BEOG and other fed
eral assistance programs (which,
in theory, benefit individual students and not the college/university—an equalizer so to speak)
and will continue to have far-
reaching results.
To see how CBC will change
with the advent of federal funding,
let us consider the changes required of Western Maryland College (a Methodist college). All
religious symbols (except for educational purposes) affiliated
with the college were abolished.
The school can neither "describe
nor hold itself as church related."
It should be "neutral as to spiritual development (in a religious
sense)" of its students, faculty,
and staff.
Religious services of any kind
can be neither sponsored or conducted on campus. Baccalaureate
services are to be entirely secular—no prayers, religious hymns,
or sermons. The federal funds are
not to be used to financially support "any religious group or organization." Philosophy and Religion courses are to be taught as
academic subjects, with 50% of the
faculty teaching in each area com
ing from non-Methodist (in our
case, non-Baptist) backgrounds
and/or religious persuasions.
The Board of Trustees are to
come from "diverse religious
backgrounds" having "not more
than 10% Methodist (Baptist) ministers." A complete disaffiliation
from the Methodist (Baptist)
Church had to be made, with promise not to renew or establish
ties at any point in the future.
"Here, then, we have spelled out
quite explicitly the price that
church colleges will probably ultimately have to pay to constitutionally receive public funding. How
many church colleges will be willing to pay the price. . . .?"One in
Riverside, California is!
When a Baptist college in Charleston, South Carolina accepted
federal funding, it didn't meet all
of these requirements. Investigators from Health, Education, and
Welfare came on campus and insisted on changes in the college's
programs with regard to religion
before pronouncing the college in
compliance with federal laws governing aid to private colleges. A
spokesperson for the college
"In the beginning. ,."
"In the beginning. ..,anevening
of drama with Dave Auda, Ken
Hornbeck, Alma Rhoades, and Nancy Smith to be presented April ,
has begun to take definite form.
The first half of the evening will
consist of scenes from "You're
A Good Man, Charlie Brown" directed by Ken Hornbeck.
The second half includes Ken
and Alma's award-winning drama
duo presentation, "Marty" and
Daniel Amos, Musfard Seed Faith,
Children of the Day
APRIL8,9,10 • 7:00 PM
SWING AUDITORIUM
689 SOUTH E STREET SAN BERNARDINO FOR MORE INFO CALL 785 4254
Find out for yourself
"Jesus livesT
Mark Twain's skit 'The Diary"of
Adam and Eve" performed by
Dave and Nancy. A Reader's Theatre selection from The Me Nobody
Knows, a "shepherd monologue"
done by Ken, an Erma Bombeck
monologue called "Why Don't You
Grow Up?" presented by Alma, and
a song written and performed by
Dave concludes the program.
Transitions of poetry, slides, and
music add a sense of continuity
to the evening's selections.
More details about this "excit-'
ing" presentation will be in the
Banner after the Easter recess.
Golden
Gate's
ehoir
eomes
Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary's Concert Choir will
travel on a "Mini-Tour" April
19-21, tollpland, Riverside,Fresno and San Jose.
The 32-voice choir will perform
works of Hassler, Bach, Brahms,
Thompson and Pfautsch.
Dr. Ron Bostic of the Seminary's
music faculty will be conductor for
the Concert Choir, and Polly Bostic will be the accompanist.
The choir will perform at 7:30
p.m. April 19 at First Baptist
Church, Upland; 10 a.m. April 20
at California Baptist Col lege, Riverside; 7:30 p.m. April 20 .at'
Harvard Terrace Baptist Church,
Fresno; and 7:30 p.m. April 21 at
Foxworthy Baptist Church, San
Jose.
Prior to leaving on the Mini-
Tour, the Concert Choir will sing
for the Redwood Empire Association at 7:30 p.m., April 14.
called "government control and
regulation ... a high price to pay
for a few federal dollars for a
church college." Perhaps South
Carolinians feel this, but not Californians!
In August of 1976, outgoing US
Commissioner of Education T.H.
Bell "urged greater federal support for church-related and other
private colleges." He also said
that the "federal government
should encourage state governments to aid denominational and
private colleges." "Amen" our
faculty senate applauded, then
realized words such as amen will
have to be deleted in the future.
The New York Times ran an
editorial stating that "erosion of
church-state separation, however
benign it may seem in the light of
serious fiscal pressures, remains
a danger to religious liberty." Sam
Ervin wrote "even a Supreme
Court Justice ought to have sufficient mental capacity to understand that compelling taxpayers to
support non-sectarian activities at
church related schools amounts to
forced support of religion." Cal
Baptist disagrees.
The University of Redlands (and
Addie Johnston College)oncewere
an American Baptist funded school.
Several years ago, they accepted
federal funding, which, in the
words of their financial aid director, "keeps our college open."
Redlands "retains ties" on a
"loose basis" with the American Baptist denomination. "Iknow
of no college" that can continueto
function without federal aid,he
said.
Although it is much too early to
estimate the amount of money Cal
Baptist will receive, estimates
project as high as a million dollars (not including individual
grants). This will enable us to
make "monumental changes inour
campus structure." Every department will reap the benefits of such
acceptance; every student will reap
the benefits of such acceptance.
(See editorial page 2 for opinion
regarding this seemingly sudden
change at California Baptist College).
"OUR WORRIES ARE over.
money!" says Flo.
Young Demos
contribute
"Although it's not a peak time
(after the election), the Young
Democrats are still meeting and
still working and stillabletomake
valuable contributions to the CBC
campus."
The Young Democrats have contributed $25 to the Forensics team
to help cover meal costs" at National competition in Virginia.
This sum will pay for over half of
one speech team member's meals
while representing CBC across the
United States. The Young Democrats contribution "will remove
pressure as we continue to raise
money" said a forensics team
member.
"It's an exciting thing to see
one club on campus eager to
take part in the goals and efforts
of another club."
Bib . m i v a,
JIM ROBERTSON, Young Democrats president, presents check to
Mrs. Norene Hokett, forensics speech coach.